ATS
HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced]


     

Ann Thorac Surg 2008;86:1569. doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.07.085
© 2008 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons
This Article
Right arrow Full Text
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Personal Folders
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow Permission Requests
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Gottesman, R.
Right arrow Articles by Hogue, C. W.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Gottesman, R.
Right arrow Articles by Hogue, C. W.
Related Collections
Right arrow Cerebral protection
Right arrowRelated Article

Original Articles: Adult Cardiac

Invited Commentary

Rebecca Gottesman, MD, PhD, Charles W. Hogue, MD

The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 N Wolfe St, Tower 711, Baltimore, MD 21287

(Email: chogue2@jhmi.edu).

The first 20% of the full text of this article appears below.

Maekawa and colleagues [1] report the findings from a study of 247 patients who underwent brain diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DWI) prior to elective cardiac surgery. The method of DWI is a sensitive way to detect acute brain ischemic injury and to distinguish new from chronic brain lesions. The findings of this study adds to a growing appreciation of the rising frequency of cerebral vascular disease and brain infarction in patients before cardiac surgery. Indeed multiple studies have shown the frequency of pre-existing cerebral infarcts to be as high as 45% in patients scheduled for cardiac surgery. In most instances, these lesions are clinically asymptomatic and thus they go undetected in the absence of brain . . . [Full Text of this Article]


Related Article

Abnormalities in the Brain Before Elective Cardiac Surgery Detected by Diffusion-Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Kengo Maekawa, Tomoko Goto, Tomoko Baba, Atsushi Yoshitake, Shoji Morishita, and Takaaki Koshiji
Ann. Thorac. Surg. 2008 86: 1563-1569. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]





HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
ANN THORAC SURG ASIAN CARDIOVASC THORAC ANN EUR J CARDIOTHORAC SURG
J THORAC CARDIOVASC SURG ICVTS ALL CTSNet JOURNALS
Copyright © 2008 by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons.